From: Andrew Cottrell Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Long section names with COFF? Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 19:50:31 +1100 Organization: ECLiPSE Lines: 16 Message-ID: <6741uu8tmmdnbdolt6lm41hebe6hqafi96@4ax.com> References: <3de07507$0$1424$272ea4a1 AT news DOT execpc DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: p141-tnt7.syd.ihug.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: lust.ihug.co.nz 1038127836 22874 203.173.144.141 (24 Nov 2002 08:50:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse AT ihug DOT co DOT nz NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 08:50:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.92/32.572 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com >How do long section names (longer than 8 characters) work with COFF? > >The specs at http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/coff/ >discuss only 8-character section names. However, an object (.o) >file that I created from C++ code using the latest DJGPP contains >sections such as ".gnu.linkonce.d._ZTV5img_c" I can't answer this one the followign may help: Which version of GCC are you using? Have you looked at the linker file in the lib directory? Do a search at www.delorie.com through the newsgroups and maling lists to find out about the changes to the linker file over the last few years since 2.03 was released.